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worldwiser

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  1. Like I said, I'm no highways planner.
  2. I had a closer look at the current layout earlier and I have a better suggestion. I do accept that it's not feasible to have more than one lane on either side of LL. But one could prohibit right hand turns from LL to EDG during the daytime and send that traffic round Zenoria and Oxonian streets during those hours (admittedly I'm not expecting a chorus of approval from those residents). The left hand turners onto EDG heading northwards up LL wouldn't hold up traffic by turning left so there's not really a requirement for a second lane there. Traffic wanting to turn right onto LL from EDG is already forced around Matham Grove so there's already a long-standing precedent for the above - my suggestion would simply be a mirror image. If it's ok for Matham Gv, it's surely ok for Zenoria/Oxonian. Then you could have the pelican crossing set-up across EDG as previously suggested. The 20mph scheme is ok.. fine. I say people will speed if they want to regardless of what the signs say but the speed of the traffic around this junction is not really the issue. It's the uncomfortable co-existence of it with pedestrians, many of whom cannot easily cross that road with any degree of security in the uncertain time available, trying to keep tabs on 3 separate and uncontrolled flows of traffic.
  3. ok.. I'm no highways planner but here's what I'd suggest: Turn the whole T-junction (let's ignore Crawthew Gv for this - it's one way anyway so doesn't contribute to the problem) into a 3-way, traffic light controlled junction with pedestrian crossings incorporated into the timings. Formalise the filter lane for turning right from the southbound LL with a filter light. Job done.
  4. Cheers for this James.. don't appear to have got a peep of this out of the council directly. Any sense from these documents as to whether they'll be installing a pedestrian crossing somewhere near the LL end of EDG? The number of near-misses with buggies and pedestrians vs traffic turning from LL into EDG is getting very worrying.
  5. Cheers James for the contacts.. in my world East Dulwich is anywhere near home :-) Happy Christmas.
  6. Since we seem to be on a traffic management tack... I have an idea for the Consort Road/Nunhead Lane junction. Consort Road has no parking restrictions on either side near that junction and the resulting gap isn't sufficient for two cars to pass. The result of this is that cars turning onto Consort Road from Nunhead Lane can't move when cars are queuing on Consort Road, and the queuing cars on Nunhead Lane can't move either. Total and pointless gridlock. I've been through here hundreds of times and find that you end up with a 10 minute wait that could easily be reduced to a minute or less. All the council would have to do is paint double yellows for approx 25-30m down one side of the beginning of Consort Road. That's literally all it would take and there doesn't seem any good reason why it shouldn't be done. The entire length of Consort Road is unrestricted and always has plenty of parking spaces. How about it James? Can we get something done?
  7. Sue, very grateful indeed that you've copied us into this. Thank-you. Seems my request for resurfacing has been recorded and agreed then James? As Sue rightly has asked, I'm also curious to learn what action is being taken over past illegal actions by the developer. I first posted a picture of a road closure in September (http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,336529,1179344#msg-1179344) but I believe others have witnessed previous occasions. Surely Southwark's response to illegal behaviour isn't merely to issue a licence permitting it?!
  8. Crawthew Grove has basically been closed at least the last two months anyway. The sightlines round that corner have now been so reduced by the near-permanent plant, machinery and debris, anyone would have to be suicidal to try and go around it. I am utterly stupefied by what this owner is getting away with - in any other part of London he'd be paying a gargantuan fee for taking up so much public parking space. My views have nothing to do with the ambition of the development - it's the utter chaos the owner is causing to realise it. AND there is no incentive of any kind to get them to proceed at a pace which is commensurate with the public interest. Will they be paying anything for the baron-like power to close a public street at will?? I note, James, that you haven't come back to my earlier request on another thread re. the incredible damage the contractors have done to the road in recent months. Can you press for full professional reinstatement of the entire road surface at their cost please.
  9. Beyond excited. We thought about doing a business plan to open a cinema one day in ED. (I used to run proper student cinema back in the day.) Guess one of these chains will save us the trouble! Hope they won't try and compete with the multiplexes and have a varied programme on offer. Look forward very much to the updates.
  10. Well we're now back.. so the calamity was shortlived. Sky don't offer 120MB broadband with a genuine 10Meg up.. much as I get occasionally aggrieved, I can just about deal with it to have proper internet the rest of the time.
  11. There is a fault disruption. You might find that you do not have any Virgin Broadband, Virgin TV, TiVo? or Virgin Phone service at the moment. Fault reference: F002769825 Yes and I might also find that you offer no reimbursement or apology for this. Nor did you the last time or the 12 times before that. Bless you for all that you do.
  12. Just called them.. all services will likely be down until Thursday morning. Arse.
  13. Hi James - thanks for contacting enforcement re. blocking road. I assume therefore that nothing can be done about the damage they're causing or the amount of street they're taking up with their equipment. That corner is a nightmare to drive around since it's impossible to see anything coming the other way. Are there no limits to how much space a contractor can take up - the entire street if they see fit?!
  14. Hi James - I wonder if you could comment on this picture. You'll see that the builders involved in the development on the first corner of Crawthew Grove took it upon themselves to close the road for their own purposes earlier today. Can you imagine on whose authority they are empowered to do this? This in addition to permanently taking up 7 or 8 badly needed parking spaces with their plant, piles of debris and office portakabin without the apparent requirement for any licence or cost to them; creating a huge amount of dirt, dust and noise which lands daily on everyone's cars; and, I noticed today, engraving deep and damaging tracks into the road surface on that corner. Is there really nothing that can be done to force these developers to have some respect for the neighbours around here and to bring some council oversight into how the site is managed? Not to mention ensuring that they pay handsomely for sorting out all the mess when they're done?
  15. Calsug - I totally agree. Some of the streets around us including the pavements are an embarrassment. I honestly don't understand how utilities and others can get away with endless patches of poorly-laid tarmac and then leave the mess to the local council to pay for its eventual restitution. The gas works around the ED Grove/LL junction are a case in point. They already had to cause the massive disruption James speaks of, but instead of doing a nice, neat relay of tarmac across the whole junction while they were at it, they just patched over an uneven section and merely repainted the bit of the yellow box area they'd hacked up. It looks absolutely awful and it massively increases road noise into the bargain. The council did similarly on Crawthew Grove a couple of months ago: making a totally pointless dog's breakfast of some yellow lines over the new cycle route nonsense, providing no real advantages for cyclists, and just adding further to an already ugly streetscape. And on East Dulwich Road - around the new pedestrian crossing.. I could go on and on. No joined up thinking on display anywhere.
  16. You can't possibly complain about an establishment that charges less than half of the going London rate for a screening. We love this cinema and are regular patrons. It's more like a posh student cinema and there's nothing about it which pretends to be more than it is. It does seem a little shambolic at times but the tickets are a fiver. And 2.50 on a Wednesday if you're with Orange. If you expect better, then you're free to avail yourself of the many sparklingly drab major chains. Which in my experience have often screwed up their listings and their film prints, offer laughingly eye-watering prices for their concessions and take far longer to get to from ED than the ghettoplex. Long may it remain.
  17. I'm highly doubtful whether off-street parking encourages car use. It just makes properties more expensive. Most properties in ED have only on-street parking available, and the whole area is jammed 24 hours. Clearly the absence of off-street parking is deterring no-one from owning a car. Including me, since I couldn't do my job without it.
  18. I responded to a knock at the door a few days ago and the second I opened the door, the young man simply said 'sorry' and headed off down the street. I'm absolutely certain he was planning to burgle us. Luckily there's regularly someone at home during the day here - but everyone, seriously, get a proper door, (not a waste of space PVC or pine framed one) don't leave windows open and you'll have absolutely nothing to worry about. We used to have a concrete framed and solid steel door with hook locks at our old house and it prevented at least 3 burglaries in 5 years. It looked like a totally normal door from 3 feet away.. best money we ever spent.
  19. Seems like the noise is back - I'll try and prevail upon them one last time and then I might come back to you. The environmental officers don't seem interested in making an appointment, you have to take your chances one evening to call them out and, if they're busy, they won't come.
  20. We also live on a road off LL and discovered a family of rats in our garden shed this week. Concrete and steel wool has proved the best solution. Plug all holes and burrows with it. It'll have an immediate effect. Make sure you have no redundant pipes/old soil stacks still connected in your garden and secure all your manhole covers and leaky outside taps. Rats need plenty of water so cut off their access to it.
  21. Favourite's towering extractor had been bothering me for some time (we could even hear it through our double glazing) so I had a word with them and they immediately agreed to get it serviced and cleaned which was surprisingly neighbourly of them. Seems way quieter now. Buoyed by the prevailing community spirit, I thought I'd move onto the owners of the huge aircon units on the roof of Foxtons, ask them to screen them in and maybe lessen their industrial impact on all our houses. Do people think this would be worth doing? Do they bother anyone else? Does anyone know who the landlord is there?
  22. I honestly believed that I had dreamt this whole thing. The sounded was like he was being murdered right outside our window. Nice work SunLover.
  23. Thought you were one of the CPZ's most ardent advocates James! All I know is, I've now lived in 3 areas of London during a period where a well thought-out CPZ was introduced and the effects were extremely helpful with very little local upset. The question is how to make sure it is well thought-out. These things are pretty much inevitable: try and name any part of zone 2 left that doesn't have restrictions on every single street during the working day. Within 10 years, we'll have one.
  24. Tr?, good tip - cheers. And ed_pete - wow, had a brief look through.. so the basic flaw was that it was only a limited number of streets and it cost a small fortune. Not surprising no-one went for it!
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